Nicholas of Hereford

Nicholas of Hereford , eng. Nicholas Of Hereford , († around 1420 in the Charterhouse of Coventry ) was an English Bible translator , Lollarde and reformer at the side of John Wycliffe .

His name probably came from the city of Hereford in southwest England . He studied at Oxford University , was ordained a priest in 1370, and received a doctorate in theology in 1382. Nicholas criticized the luxury of the Church and affirmed the right of every Christian to come to his own faith by reading the Bible.

He was sentenced with Wycliffe and other lollards for their views and had to appear at the court of the Archbishop of Canterbury for recall in 1382 . When they refused to withdraw their views, they were excommunicated . Against the excommunication, he immediately appealed to Pope Urban VI in Rome . one, but was again and now sentenced to life imprisonment. During a popular uprising against the Pope in June 1385, he escaped and traveled back to England. On his return, however, he was re-imprisoned by William Courtenay , Archbishop of Canterbury, and his writings were confiscated and destroyed on behalf of King Richard II of England.

In 1391 he finally revoked his critical views of the Church and was appointed Chancellor of Hereford Cathedral in the same year and that of St Paul's Cathedral in London in 1395 . From 1397 to 1417 he was treasurer in Hereford. A few years before his death he resigned his office as treasurer and entered the Carthusian order . His only surviving work on which he has worked is the Wyclif Bible .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the Church Lexicon ( Memento from May 17, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Nikolaus von Hereford in the Encyclopaedia Britannica , accessed on December 19, 2013 (English).

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